A former general practitioner, tried for rape and sexual assault on several patients, was sentenced, Friday April 19, to eleven years of criminal imprisonment with a committal warrant by the Châteauroux criminal court.
The court accompanied Jacques Olsina’s sentence with a fine of 10,000 euros and a definitive ban on practicing medicine. The twenty-four victims are mainly women placed under guardianship.
For Sébastien Robin, one of the lawyers for two plaintiffs who have become civil parties, interviewed by Agence France-Presse (AFP), “it is not certain that all the victims are present”investigators “having apparently not managed to go back before 2010-2011”. The case started following a report from a legal representative of one of the victims, in 2020.
One of the women reported rape
During their hearings, the victims spoke of touching the former general practitioner on the chest and genitals during medical examinations, between December 2013 and December 2020. One of the women denounced a rape, of which investigators found traces of the video.
During searches of the medical office, investigators discovered in the computer equipment compromising videos of patients, filmed without their knowledge, with a mobile phone during the medical consultation. These videos are “particularly unsustainable”according to Sébastien Robin.
The general practitioner asked his patients, who presented a certain psychological fragility, to masturbate or take explicit positions even though the appointment was not suitable for this, according to a judicial source.
“We border on disgust”
“In the minds of these women, it was: ‘It’s the doctor who asks, so if he asks, it must be done’”explained Mr. Robin. “We border on disgust”declared Christel Jousse, another lawyer for the civil party.
For lawyer Alexia Augereau, “the victims needed to understand his actions and this request was not really met”. “The accused admitted the facts superficially; he had not done any introspective work”she continued.
“He feels extremely guilty, he is ashamed and still does not understand how he could have done that”assured Pascaline Courthes, who defends the former doctor.
The criminal court will examine the victims’ requests for reparations on November 15.